PC World - European telecommunications ministers gave their backing on Thursday to a plan to cap retail prices for sending SMS (Short Message Service) text messages and browsing the Internet using mobile phones while abroad.
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Nov24
PayPal Adds PIN-By-Phone Authentication (PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - eBay’s PayPal unit and VeriSign said Monday that they two companies have extended their partnership to allow two-factor authentication via mobile phones.
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Nov24
Cellphone market gloom spreads to Samsung (Reuters)
Reuters - Samsung Electronics on Monday warned on cellphone market growth this year and next, the latest sign that weaker consumer confidence is hitting the wireless sector around the world.
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Nov21
Nokia to start Japan cell phone service in 2009: report (Reuters)
Reuters - Nokia Corp plans to launch a mobile phone service in Japan next spring, a move expected to intensify competition among Japanese cell phone carriers, Japanese daily Yomiuri Shimbun reported on Saturday.
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Nov21
Sprint Nextel’s CDMA exec John Garia steps down (Reuters)
Reuters - U.S. mobile service provider Sprint Nextel Corp said on Friday that the president of its CDMA business unit, John Garcia, is leaving the company.
Filed in: Cell Phones
Oct24
Trends & Innovations - Friday (Investor’s Business Daily)
Investor’s Business Daily - A new service called My Mobile Witness lets users turn their camera phones into personal protection tools. The service is designed to help users when they are in a situation that has them on edge, such as letting strangers into their homes. Users take a photo of that person with their phone and send it to My Mobile Witness. The free service gives the message a time stamp and stores it in its digital vault. If a user ends up getting into trouble, the service gives police access to the message. Owners of a real estate firm developed the service after they got worried about their agents’ safety.
Filed in: Cell Phones
Oct8
Social Networking Goes Mobile, Gets Corporate Face (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - As IBM sets out to launch its Bluehouse corporate social network to compete with Cisco and Google, word comes that Facebook and MySpace are the most popular social-networking sites for mobile-phone users.
Filed in: Cell Phones
Oct8
Analysts cut 2009 mobile phone growth estimates (Reuters)
Reuters - The global mobile phone market should grow at much slower-than-expected rates next year as consumers put off buying new devices due to deepening economic concerns, according to forecasts from analysts.
Filed in: Cell Phones
Sep27
Apple sells unlocked iPhones in Hong Kong (AFP)
AFP - Apple has started selling unlocked models of its popular iPhone 3G in Hong Kong which allow users the freedom to select the telecoms provider of their choice.
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Sep26
Mobile phone subscriptions to reach 4 billion by year-end: ITU (AFP)
AFP - The number of mobile phone subscriptions in the world will reach four billion by the end of the year driven by growth in developing economies, the International Telecommunications Union said Friday.
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